How Much Is That Pork Chop In The Window (Or The Value Of The Past)

But if I saw you buy it would it be wrong for me to sell the fact that you purchased a pork chop to a company that is interested in people interested in pork.

It may seem funny but a lot of people are interested in your eating habits.

And everything else that you do.

Information is everywhere and it’s not really a secret. People sell information, public information, all the time.

But this post is not about your privacy or my love of swine.

It’s about baseball.

Major League Baseball bought the rights to use player names, photographs and statistics from its players’ union in 2005 for $50 million over five years.

MLB sold the annual licensing rights for about $2 million each to companies including CBS Corp.’s SportsLine.com and Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN.

But it seems that those rights didn’t belong to the player’s union to sell.

In fact, they don’t belong to anyone.

A federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that lets a fantasy baseball company use players’ names and statistics without paying a licensing fee.

Major League Baseball’s position in the case was supported in legal briefs by NFL Ventures LP, National Football League Players Association, NBA Properties Inc., NHL Enterprises LP, NASCAR Inc., PGA Tour Inc. and WNBA Enterprises LLC.

If were to play fantasy baseball on CBS Sportsline 2 years ago you’could not have gotten Barry Bonds. He was there but his name was oddly misspelled. Barry did not agree with the baseball union (or anyone else) and refused to let them sell his stats and name.

I find it interesting that a player everyone hates for being a part of a generation that “destroyed” the game, is so protective of his image.

Interesting post. I got a slight headache, too, but I think it was the pork chops!

“Anyone who plays MVP Baseball 2004, Electronic Arts’ computer game, will notice that a curious addition to the San Francisco Giants’ roster is John Dowd, who if not for being a red-headed Caucasian who bats righty, is otherwise the spitting image of Bonds, down to his height, weight and batting statistics.”